The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-21

panies are settling on the best terms
possible, some taking fifty per cent. and
some taking parts of accounts in notes.
THERE win be a q. A. R. celebration Oc.
tober 26 q and 2S at Cincinnati.
THE United States Treasury on the 18th
received a conscience contribution of
twenty dollars in an envelope pOstmarked
Gretna, Neb.
ENGLISH Government officials are much
annoyed over the verdict of murder
/ against the police at Mitchellstown, Ire
| land.
THE council of French Generals appoint
ed to investigate the Cafferell matter,
pronounced General CaffereH guilty of
habitual misconduct and unworthy the
confidence of a public Office.
THE inspector-general of the Irish con-
| stabulary has ordered that the police who
did the shooting at Mitchellstown be not
/ arrested.
| THE jury in the case against John
! O'Oonnor, on trial in the United States
! District Court at st. Paul, Mimi, for
robbing the Minneapolis post Off cs, re-
/ ported on the 18th that they could not
/ agree.
| A WINNIPEG (Bfan.) special to the St.
| Paul Pioneer Press says: A letter from
! Stewart, on the north shore of Lake Su-
/ perior, reports the finding of the bodies Of
| two persons stoned to death by Indians.
I
! camping party.
THE London Standards Paris CORE
! spondent confirms the report that General
| Boulanger has been placed under arrest
for the period of thirty days for insOlence
/ in reply to interrogatiOns by the Minister
| of War
! THE capital of the Pullman Palace Car
! Company, already at the enormous total
! of Sl5, 800, 900, was increased % per cent. on
tn 18th, making the aggregate amount in
round numbers, nearly $50, 900, 000.
/ THE students of Dartmouth College, VT,
| smuggled donkey into the chapel on the
/ 18th, and the exercises had to be hel d
while the animal remained on the plat
form with President Bartlett and the
other members of the faculty. There was
! much amusement over the affair.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON writes to
the Medical Nel0 that the fatal progress
| of the disease at Tampa prevents adhesion
| to the theory that it is dengue and not yell
/ low fever. He insists upon the neces ity
| of isolation, segregation, municipal clean
illness, careful quarantine and special hos
pitals.
GERMANY viii not send a war-ship to
Morocco, but will intrust to England the
protection Of Germans residing in Moroc-
| CO. This resolution is regarded in political
circles here as a proof of the cordial
entente between the Germans and the
| English.
THE st. Louis Browns won the fifth
game of the worlds baseball champion
ship series at Brooklyn, on the 14th. The
score was: st. Louis, 3; DetrOits, 2.
A NOTORIOUS gang of burglars are fol-
| lowing the county fairs through Illinois.
THIEVES are said to be working freight
cars on the roads running into Danville,
III.
The One Hundred and Seventh Illinois
. UoTr1nAnar ir1fa hold a fov, at
Farmer City, ILL.,, on the 25th and Goth
inst.
ENGLISH Anar chists held meeting of
sympathy for Chicago's condemned men
in London on the 14th, and made fiery
| threats.
A WASHINGTON policeman's wife be,
| lieves herself entitled to half interest in
the estate of the California millionaire,
| O'Brien.
MEXICO is pushing a scheme for an in
ternational fast mail service to shorten
the time between New York and the City
of Mexico.
The Bell Telephone Company has in
stituted suit against the Southern Tele-
phone Company at Little Rock, Ark, for
alleged infringement of the Edison
patents.
ALARM is felt at the bold attitude of
what are known as LOndon's dangerous
classes" 1t is feared that they will go te
plundering stores and shops for some thing
to eat and wear.
SOME time ago Jerome Staring, of FL
mira, N. Y, sustained injuries by being
thrown from his wagon, his horse havin g
been frightened by employees of the West.
ern Union Telegraph Company, who were
at work removing wires. A jury awarded
him verdict of $4,000 damages Oh the
14th.
A GENERAL order has been issued from
army headquarters showing the results Of
the competition this year of distinguished
marksmen in the army and announcing
the names Of twenty ty-nine officers and men,
who, in consequence of having for three
years won places on department rifle
teams or three of the prize medals, have
been placed in the class of distinguished
marksmen and awarded handsome badges.